Particular to Cooper Sacred Harp Stuff

The
SH Book Company: Until the company puts up
their own website, you can find out a little bit about the
company here, who the board
members are, and how to order the book from them.

MISTAKES:
As mistakes have been uncovered in the latest printing, they
have been listed.
You can help by sending in any additional ones you find to Cooper@weelyrd.net
with "Cooper Errata" in the subject line.

Bass
Runs: A very few of the songs in the 2012 Cooper SH
have "gospelly" runs shown in the music. But we've all been to
singings where the basses do something not in the book. Here
are five. Please send any additional examples to Cooper@weelyrd.net
with "Bass Runs" in the subject line, and they'll be added to
this collection.

OTHER
USEFUL BITS

Index
to Composers, Arrangers, & Sources of Music
The index is based on the information provided in the 2012
edition on the upper right-hand corner of each song. This PDF
document is available for download without any charge. Print
at 100%, portrait orientation, (turn off auto rotate),
double-sided. One can then staple on the left, and trim (leave
a flap to fold over and conceal the staples' rough side) to
fit just inside the covers of the tunebook for easy carrying
around. There was no room to include this index in the printed
and bound book. Allowing singers to print it out for
themselves and tuck it just inside their books is the
compromise arrived at by the music revision committee. Download
the PDF.

Thought You Knew How To Use
the Tune Index?
The Tune Index is now to be found at the back of the
book. It has several new features: tune names which
begin with "The" are listed both under the "Ts" and under the
2nd word of the tune name; tunes which appear in both the
Denson Sacred Harp and the Cooper Sacred Harp but with
different tune names, have both tune names listed; the tune
names for minor tunes are printed in bold, making them easy to
spot; anthems, duets, and major/minor companions are listed
both under their respective tune names and in separate lists
on the last page of the Index.

Songs with unwritten "bass
runs"
A small "Bass Runs" PDF
booklet has been put together of some of the gospel
songs that have unwritten notes for the basses to sing.

Songs moved to a New Page in
the 2012 edition
All songs that were in the 2006 edition are present in the
2012 edition, but a few of them are now on new pages. The 2012
music revision committee apologizes for this but the result is
that the moved songs are in much roomier locations and look
much nicer and are easier to sight-read. New
Locations.

Songs that are New to the
2012 edition
After moving the overly-crowded songs to their new locations,
the music revision committee found to their joy that there was
space in which to add new songs. Some of these are newly
composed, and some are older songs inexplicably not in the
2006 edition. Download the list of songs
new to the 2012 edition.

Songs that gained verses in
the 2012 edition (and the few that lost one)
Many songs gained one or more verses, to the great pleasure of
singers who have been asking for exactly this. There were a
very few songs which had formerly been quite crammed tight
with too many words, and these have been put on a diet and now
look quite lovely and slim. Download the list of all songs
with verse changes.
[Note: living composers were consulted before their songs lost
any verses and their approval was obtained.]

Tune
Comparisons between the 1991 Denson and the 2012 Cooper
edition
The quite clever singers in Texas have produced a comparison
list looking at the latest editions of the Denson Sacred
Harp and the Cooper Sacred Harp, for the tunes that the two
books have in common.